This happened to me on a tribe with only about 12 villagers. It seems to me that VV3 runs into food problems a bit more than the other games. Does it seem that way to rest of you guys?

There is a trick with mushrooms that helped me a lot: when you see a mushroom, pause the game, put one kid on the mushie and one or two other kids nearby. Then unpause the game, drop another kid on it quick, and you will get two mushrooms (12 food, or 70 if it a red mushroom). If you are very talented you can pause again and drop a third kid. There are always several mushrooms that pop up during rain so stay right in front of your game, constantly hunting mushies esp during rainstorms.

The trees and the hive will get a little food every day or so. In the game where I was having so much trouble, the hive got 12 food. I paused the game, put all adults to the hive at once, and ended up with about 80 food units from the hive.

Also, you can hope for an event that will get you some food.

Let us hear how your game came out.